Burney: The Cunning Man (FACSIMILE)
Series: Classical Era Publisher: A-R Editions
This volume is part of the set Rousseau: Le Devin du village
For the full score, see Rousseau: Le Devin du village
The Cunning Man (Facsimile Supplement)
Edited by Kerry S. Grant
C050F Burney: The Cunning Man (FACSIMILE)
978-0-89579-400-0
Facsimile (1998)
11x8.5, xi + 68 pp.
$33.00
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A supplement to the edition of Rousseau's Le devin du village, with an introduction by Kerry Grant, is a facsimile of Burney's own copy of his piano-vocal arrangement (London, 1766), complete with his handwritten recitatives inserted on separate manuscript pages.
Overture
Act I
Lost is all my Peace of Mind (Mrs Arne)
Recitative: He lov'd me once
Sinfonia
Recitative: Will Colin ne'er be mine again
Had I heard each am'rous Ditty (Mrs Arne)
Recitative: His heart to you I'll soon restore
If uneasy Love increases (Mr Champness)
Recitative: Resigned to your advice alone
I'll teaze him & fret him (Mrs Arne)
Recitative: Be wise how e'er you fright th' ingrate
No, no, my Phoebe will ne'er deceive me (Mr Vernon)
Recitative: No shepherd's now to you preferr'd
Symphony while the Cunning Man, makes the Charm
Recitative: The charm is ended
Some think in the stare we are able (Mr Champness)
Act II
I soon my charming Nymph shall view (Mr Vernon)
Love with love, if but repaid (Mr Vernon)
Recitative Accompanied: Ah! Here she comes
Recitative: Sweet Phoebe, are you angry
Your Love from me's not yet departed (Mr Vernon)
Recitative: Ah me! No, by you betrayed
While I my Colin knew to please (Mr Vernon & Mrs Arne)
How ever great the Wealth or Pleasure (Mr Vernon)
Colin now his Faith has plighted (Mr Vernon & Mrs Arne)
Recitative: My pow'r has caused th' enchantment dire
Haste, haste ye Maidens fair (Mr Champness)
Chorus: Since Colin now has ceas'd to range
In my Cottage obscure (Mr Vernon)
Sometimes a Passion's rais'd (Mr Champness, Mr Vernon, and Mrs Arne)
United with the Swain I love (Mrs Arne)
Let us now Dance with Mirth and Glee (Mrs Arne)
The Comic Tunes in Le Devin du Village, or Cunning Man
The Entrance of the Youths of the Village
Pantomime
Air a Dance
1st Minuet
2d Minuet
Allemand
Country Dance
Lionel Sawkins, "French Opera Large and Small," Early Music 28 (Feb. 2000): 123.